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Derrida writes of the kind of absence formed by repetition: “It is not absence instead of presence, but a trace which replaces a presence which has never been present, an origin by means of which nothing has begun” (295). This is surely what Borges’ claim amounts to in “Kafka and His Precursors”: “In each of these texts we find Kafka’s idiosyncrasy to a greater or lesser degree, but if Kafka had never written a line, we would not perceive this quality; in other words, it would not exist” (236).

See Reed, 199 and Eilenberg, 56. Such post-structuralist readings do indeed have the effect of placing the poem within a Beckettian frame: the unnamed Mariner as The Unnamable narrator. 43 Paul Lawley 11. See Shenker, 148 and Knowlson, 47. 12. On the implications for Joyce criticism of Beckett’s positioning of him, see Dettmar. 13. For the impact of its Preface on the reading of “Kubla Khan,” see Stillinger, especially 73-79. 14. Beckett on Hölderlin (quoted by Patrick Bowles): “His only successes are the points where his poems go on, falter, stammer and then admit failure, and are abandoned.